Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-24

THE LABOR WORLD.
WHAT THE HUMAN BEES IN THB HIVES
OF INDUSTRY ARR DOING.
me Business World RatAsr Knocked Out BY IA,
Eses Of the Interstate Commerce Bin
The Sas6On all Over he Country
Briefly and POinedly Discussed.

sPeetai Correspondence Qf-Gss Sunday RsqSer.
PHILADELPHA, PA, April 9TH,
business world is still turned upside down
50 to speak over the unexpected effects pro
dueed by the new railroad law. Merchant.
and manufacturers are unable to do all the
business that is offered them. Variou in.
dustries are variously affected. Rates have
been advanced in many places fsrso two to
seven times former prices. Order will
shortly eOme out Of all this confusion. The
business men of the country are waiting
Tor the commissioners to virtually set aside
the law. The Commissioners are over
whelmed with questions, appeals and COM
plants.
Business itself apart from unsettled
freight rates is in excellent shape. WHIST
Is not shipped this week will be shipped
next Prices hold their own in nearly all
industries. Production in the iron trade
is greater than ever. The output of pig
iron has increased eleven thousand tons
per week since January First. The An
thraciIe coal combination has been renewed
The lumber freight rates are lower. The
shipments Of lumber from the Northwest
and from Georgia have run away ahead of
last year.
Buyers everywhere are looking forward
to heavy buying before the opening of Sum
mer. The mills and factories OF the eoun-
try are with very few exceptions running
full time. The iron and steel works are
everywhere running night and day. The
carriage and wagon works and iron manu-
acturers have had a rush Of business du-
ring the past week.
WOOL Is LOW IN PRICE
and cotton has advanced. Prices of nearly
all kinds OF cotton goods are firm. During
the past month over 13S, OOO, 600 yards OF
cotton goods have been exported. The
manufacturers Of clothing are very busy in
all cities except Philadelphia. In St. Louis
manufacturers Of stoves and furnaces are
having hard time Of it. In Omaha the
lumber dealers are growing at hig- lumber
rates. At Savannah trade has been greatly
enliyened. At New Orleans all distribu-
tive lines have been brisk and prices for
stable articles show in advance.
Throughout the West railroad building
is being crowded ahead. The new railroad
law may stop good deal of projected work
aud if 50, this would affect trade in general.
1t is probable, however, that this year will
not be allowed TO pass without the COM
pletiOn OF all projected work, which calls
for not less than eleven thousand miles.
The manufacturers of dry goods, knit
goods, hosiery and carpeting are still able
to run iull time and the probabilities now
are thabusa'ices will improve in cotton
goods of all'kinds from prints up.
THE ADVANCE IN REAL ESTATE
throughout the country is one of the I'M
expected turns in events. The activity in
building operations throughout the cOun-
try unless it is checked by SONS cause not
visible will be twenty-five per cent over
last years building. Manufacturers of
material are loaded up with orders. The
probabilities are that present quotations
for all the stable products will lluctuate
very little. The supply of gold, silver and
paper has been steadily increasing and this
is one Of the strongest guarantees Of steady
prices, strong industrial activity, and in
creasing confidence.
The Knights of Labor are losing mem
bership about as fast IS they gained, and
the effort is DOW being made TO divert the
attention Of the organization to more im-
pOrtlnt subjects than that Of strikes. The
question of political action has been de-
cided. The question of cooperation re-
mains debatable one.
THE EXTENSION
of the railway system tbs season will
create permanent employment for y large
number OF skilled mechanics in supplying
railway materials and appliances. New
manufacturing centres will spring up IN
the West for this purpose. Railroad man.
ayers have inquiries now out for machinery
and motive power to he erected in Missouri,
Colorado and i'm the far Northwestern
States. Their object is TO be more indePen-
dent of sources of supply east of the Mis-
sissippi. A good many skilled mechanics
from eastern shops have been invited to
positions in the West. The western car
shops are also being enlarged, and within
the past two or three weeks heavy contracts
have been placed for hard wood supplies.
An unusually large number OF English
mechanics have arranged To emlgrate tbs
year, and expect to find employment IN the
machine shops and factories OF New Eng
land and the Middle States. There is no
particular inducemeDt for them to come
outside of the general probability for find
ING employment. American machinlstS
have for years been complaining that, with
all the tradeS-unions of English mechanics,
when they come her they are anxious to
work for what they eau get.
THE SUPREME COURT
of Connecticut finally rendered its decision
in the printers bOycOtting ease which at
tracted good deal Of notice some time
aro. The Court says: The bare assertion
of such q right is startling The two
ALLEGED rightS-the right to employ and
the right to bOycott-cInuot possibly CO.
exist One or the other must yield. II
the defendants had the right which they
claim. then all business enterprises are
alike subject to their direction
Country towns near large CItieSare likely
to be helped by the outflow OF industrial
establishments ON account OF high rents
and taxes. Manufacturers who started
few wears ago in small towns are doing re-
markedly well, and in many ways under
selling their city competitors. employees
sneak frequently Of other disadvantages
besides. and a movement will probably set
in 20 the well situated towns within nifty
miles of commercial centres.
New England trade journals are making
n GOOD many complaints over the eNaeting
demands successfully made by organized
labor. In many papers the tone assumes
a whining character, rs though the writer
felt there was no escape from the thumb
screw of organized labor. Many articles
are written TO show that the present de-
mapds are calculated to destroy business
aud iniure the prospects of labor for future
employments
THe OUTPUT
of the locomotive works OF the country